{"id":332570,"date":"2010-02-17T08:58:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-17T13:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6760875.post-8735885920976768833"},"modified":"2010-02-17T13:08:12","modified_gmt":"2010-02-17T18:08:12","slug":"photo-for-today-tareq-mons-porphyrites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/332570","title":{"rendered":"Photo for Today &#8211; Tareq, Mons Porphyrites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_GkACkMnhFU0\/S0RtFX69XPI\/AAAAAAAAKBA\/gqmRM2G868s\/s1600-h\/Tareq.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 400px;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_GkACkMnhFU0\/S0RtFX69XPI\/AAAAAAAAKBA\/gqmRM2G868s\/s400\/Tareq.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5423579790348999922\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">Tareq, Mons Porphyrites<\/p>\n<p>The Eastern Desert was used as a resource for raw materials<br \/>throughout late Predynastic and Dynastic Egypt.<\/p>\n<p>The Eastern Desert was a resource<br \/>for stones and minerals and a through-route for traffic moving<br \/>between the Red Sea coast and the Nile.<\/p>\n<p>This site was built by Roman occupants of Egypt<br \/>for the extraction of a stone type called porphyry<br \/>which is remarkable for its white flecks of feldspar and quartz.<\/p>\n<p>The remarkable thing about the stone<br \/>from this particular site is that the stone was a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eeescience.utoledo.edu\/faculty\/harrell\/egypt\/quarries\/gd-l-1.jpg\">purple shade with white flecks<\/a><br \/>and is the only known source of the stone.<\/p>\n<p>The purple porphyry from here was sent to Rome for<br \/>elaborate building projects including the<br \/>delivery room of the palace in Constantinople which was paneled with porphyry.<br \/>Children born to the reigning monarch were known as &#8220;porphyrogenitos&#8221;<br \/>i.e. &#8220;born-in-the-purple&#8221;.<br \/>You can read more about the site here:<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/archaeology-easterndesert.com\/html\/graeco-roman.html#MonsP\">Eastern Desert Archaeology<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">Egyptology News Blog, Andie Byrnes<img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/6760875-8735885920976768833?l=egyptology.blogspot.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tareq, Mons Porphyrites The Eastern Desert was used as a resource for raw materialsthroughout late Predynastic and Dynastic Egypt. The Eastern Desert was a resourcefor stones and minerals and a through-route for traffic movingbetween the Red Sea coast and the Nile. This site was built by Roman occupants of Egyptfor the extraction of a stone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-332570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}